Journal article
Cropscapes and History Reflections on Rootedness and Mobility
Transfers, v 9(1), pp 20-41
01 Mar 2019
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Abstract
Crops are a very special type of human artifact, living organisms literally rooted in their environments. Crops suggest ways to embed rootedness in mobility studies, fleshing out the linkages between flows and matrices and thus developing effective frameworks for reconnecting local and global history. Our focus here is on the movements, or failures to move, of "cropscapes": the ever-mutating ecologies, or matrices, comprising assemblages of nonhumans and humans, within which a particular crop in a particular place and time flourishes or fails. As with the landscape, the cropscape as concept and analytical tool implies a deliberate choice of frame. In playing with how to frame our selected cropscapes spatially and chronologically, we develop productive alternatives to latent Eurocentric and modernist assumptions about periodization, geographical hierarchies, and scale that still prevail within history of technology, global and comparative history, and indeed within broader public understanding of mobility and history.
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- Title
- Cropscapes and History Reflections on Rootedness and Mobility
- Creators
- Francesca Bray - University of EdinburghBarbara Hahn - Texas Tech UniversityJohn Bosco Lourdusamy - Indian Institute of Technology MadrasTiago Saraiva - Drexel University tsaraiva@drexel.edu
- Publication Details
- Transfers, v 9(1), pp 20-41
- Publisher
- Berghahn Journals
- Number of pages
- 22
- Grant note
- Dept. III of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- History
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000472778400003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85068090743
- Other Identifier
- 991019167712404721
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